Report of the Leake and Watts Orphan House.

Leake and Watts
Orphan House

1918

To reach the Institution take:

The Broadway subway to Van Cortlandt
Park, there the Yonkers surface car to Val-
entine Lane, then walk west to Hawthorne
Avenue;

or

The New York Central Railroad to Yonkers
station, then the Riverdale Avenue surface car
south to Valentine Lane and walk west to
Hawthorne Avenue;

or

The Putnam Division of the New York Cen-
tral to Lowerre station and walk west.

Communications relating to the Home
may be addressed to
A. S. McClain, Superintendent,
463 Hawthorne Avenue,
Yonkers, N. Y.

Visitors are always welcome.

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Report

OF THE

Leake and Watts Orphan H

HOMES

Hawthorne Avenue and New York City Line
Yonkers, N. Y.
and

Rose Hill Farm, Tivoli, N. Y.

EIGHTY EIGHTH YEAR

1918

Methods of Receiving Children

Children between six and twelve years
of age are received on application to the
Superintendent or by commitment from the
New York City Department of Charities,
or from a County Superintendent of the
Poor or Commissioner of Charities and
Correction.

A limited number of children under or
over the above ages may be received by
special arrangement, on application to the
Superintendent.

Historical Sketch

1831 — Act of Incorporation, in accordance with the will
of John George Leake and through the co-operation of
his brother-in-law, John Watts.

Controlling body — an ex-officio Board of Trustees pro-
vided for in the will of John George Leake.

1843 — The first home opened at 110th Street, New York
City.

1884 — Alumni Association organized.
1888— First site sold to the Cathedral of St. John the
Divine.

1891 — Present building opened.

1896 — Gymnasium wing and girls' annex added, largely
through generosity of Gen. John Watts dePeyster.

1905— Eose Hill Farm at Tivoli, N. Y., left to the insti-
tution by Gen. John Watts dePeyster.

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Leake and Watts Orphan House

The Leake and Watts Orphan House during the year
1918 has cared for the largest family in its history. So
many are the children who have been bereft of father or
mother, or both, by the war and its consequences or by
the influenza epidemic, that like other institutions, we
have been almost compelled to stretch our capacity to
its utmost limit. To do this, in the face of war condi-
tions, has been, as every one will readily understand, a
heavy strain upon our resources.

The advances in price of almost all commodities have
been so great from month to month that not even with
our careful system have we always been able to keep
within our monthly budget. As we look back, however,
it is difficult to see where we could have cut down without
the sacrifice of the health, the happiness, or the prepara-
tion for the future which we try to guarantee the children
entrusted to us.

Though in many respects the past year has undoubt-
edly been the most trying in the history of the home, in
the life of the boys and girls it would seem to have been
one of the very best. It has been full of varied and un-
usual experiences, and yet the normal course of their
lives has not suffered. They have worked and studied as
earnestly and played as vigorously as ever, have eaten
heartily and have spent long hours in sound sleep. Never
has our family as a whole been in better health or more
contented and happy.

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PHYSICAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE CHILDREN

One does not live long among boys and girls without
realizing the almost paramount importance of their
health. To insure a happy childhood and a successful
future to the children under our care, we realize that we
must start them with as perfect bodies as possible. Some
of our children, it is true, come directly from homes of
intelligent and proper care, homes broken only by death.
Others have been taken from amidst deep poverty or
from parent or guardian unworthy of the name, and our
task is then not merely to keep them well, but to make
them healthy and strong. Every report of our work must,
therefore, begin with what has been done toward physical
development.

In the past year 29 children upon coming to us have
been tested for and fitted to glasses, in each instance by a
specialist, making 47 at present wearing glasses, and,
what is more, wearing them as directed, thanks to the
watchful care of the supervisors and teachers. Adenoid
and tonsil operations have been performed upon 16 chil-
dren and 7 entering with old cases of ear trouble have
received treatment or operation.

That we have our own dental clinic has been a cause
for congratulation during the past year. With our large
family, it is a question whether the work could have been
covered in any other way. The report of our attending
dentist shows 79 first sittings, 490 subsequent sittings,
84 examinations, 98 cleanings, 221 extractions, 57 treat-
ments, 141 cement and 252 amalgam fillings, 13 root canal
fillings, and a re-inspection at the end of the year of the
teeth of all the children.

In the corrective classes both teacher and pupils have
again put forth earnest efforts to strengthen weak foot
muscles, straighten bent shoulders and broaden narrow
chests. The numbers assigned to these classes show the
need of the work. Out of a family of 250 children, over

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200 have been enrolled for a longer or shorter period.
Many of the boys and girls have taken such interest in
their exercises that the improvement in their appearance
and health has been very noticeable. Several cases of
foot trouble not amenable to correction by exercises have
been greatly benefited by operation, arch supports, or
special shoes, as the case required.

The past months we have paid greater attention than
ever to the children's diet. Much in the way of food we
have, as usual, raised ourselves, especially the green
vegetables, in which, modern science tells us, so much
virtue resides. These have helped to give variety and to
balance our menus. The making out of the bill of fare
is no easy task, so many things have to be taken into
account. We consider the likes and dislikes of the chil-
dren as far as possible, and yet we try to teach them to
eat the things essential to health, even if they do not at
first fancy them. With any particular child our troubles
in this respect are usually over when he begins to realize
the connection that exists between his food and his phys-
ical development.

In such good condition were our children last fall that
we had hoped to escape the prevalent influenza, but, in
spite of rigid precautions, it finally reached us, though
in most cases not in a severe form. We regret to report,
however, that we lost two boys, who were very ill from
the first. The other children recovered rapidly and with
no serious after-effects.

As some indication of the present good health of our
family, we might say that seldom, if ever, have we had
as few in the infirmary, even when our numbers were
considerably smaller. Moreover, the general appear-
ance of the children has never been better. The report
of the first re-weighing in the new year is most encourag-
ing, showing an average gain during six months of lYz
pounds — our highest record.

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TRAINING OF MIND AND HAND

First, under the above heading, we must speak of our
system of mental testing, as it continues to be the greatest
help in determining where a child belongs in both aca-
demic and vocational work. By means of the Stanford
Eevision of the Binet Test and the Yerkes Point Scale,
each child is tested and the resulting information is used
as a guide in assigning him to his school grade.

If a child coming to us proves to be decidedly sub-
normal, he is returned to those responsible for him, with
a full report of the results of all examinations and with
whatever suggestions we are able to make in his case. It
is hard to reject any child, but, in justice to himself and
to the other children, we cannot- keep one who either
mentally or physically needs special treatment for which
we have no facilities.

In the case of a child found to be retarded only two or
three years, every effort is made to meet his condition
and he is re-tested later. Often a doubtful case will be
found after six months' sojourn with us to have gained
a year or more mentally, which fact fully establishes his
normality and shows that the retardation so manifest on
admission was due solely to outside handicaps and not
to lack of ability.

These mental tests are an especial help to us in ad-
justing tho.se children who really belong to no particular
academic grade, and who must be especially encouraged
and guided if they are to obtain the simplest rudiments
of an every day education. For this small group we
have had this past year what we call our Mixed Primary
Class, under the leadership of a teacher who by training
and disposition is well fitted to cope with the divers prob-
lems presented by .such children.

In this Mixed Primary Class are found, of course,
chiefly those children who on account of mental handicap

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OUR GRADUATING CLASS

M A X TAL TRAINING

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cannot travel far along life's educational highways, but
there are also boys and girls whose mentality is at least
average, as their tests show plainly, but who, because of
lack of opportunities, are far below the standard of aca-
demic grading for their age. The extra help afforded by
group work in the several subjects has enabled many of
this latter number to take their places in the regular
school grades after a few weeks or months in the Mixed
Primary.

At the beginning of the present school year an extra
class-room and equipment was added to our educational
department, to provide for the increased number of
pupils. For the first time we shall have in June a grad-
uating class of our own. The organization of this class
has been a pleasure and an inspiration to us all and we
feel that from Kindergarten to Eighth Grade we have
reason to be proud of our school.

In the day's schooling, under our plan, at least four
hours have been devoted to the all-important ' 1 Three
RV, while free and supervised play periods and pre-
vocational work also have had their place. Our super-
vised evening study hour for the higher grades we have
found a great help in keeping the academic work up to
standard. Since our last report 9 pupils have made such
rapid progress that they have been advanced a half year,
while three have skipped an entire year. This past term
25% have been on the honor roll, snowing that they have
attained an average in class-room work of 90% or more.

In manual training the upper grade boys have spent
not less than four hours a week, and, besides shop work,
much practical carpentry has been done by them in and
around the building.

The printing outfit so generously given by the Leake
and Watts Alumni Association has been of great value
to the children vocationally, as well as to the institution
financially. Our office stationery has been printed by the

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boys, and, in addition, they have recently undertaken the
publication of a four page monthly paper, which chron-
icles the doings of both children and staff. That this work
in the print shop is not without its commercial value is
shown by the fact that several boys obliged to leave us
before the completion of their Eighth Grade work have
been able to obtain creditable positions in outside print-
ing offices.

Gardening has again been part of the training of the
older boys. Our horticulture classes have proved both
interesting and instructive. They have helped to provide
many of the vegetables for our use, also plants and
flowers to brighten the dining-room and class-rooms.

Our pre-vocational work for the girls has included, as
before, lessons in cooking and serving, laundry work,
6ewing, mending, embroidering and crocheting. The
girls have also, in their four-room practice apartment,
been taught the proper care of a home. In all this work,
as well as in their daily tasks about the house, we have
tried this year, even more than ever before, to harmonize
theory and practical application.

We must not fail to mention our High School pupils.
As in former years, they have attended the Yonkers High
School. Some of them are taking advantage of the excel-
lent commercial course there given to fit themselves for
business positions; others are ambitiously pursuing the
college preparatory course. Great was our surprise and
delight last June when two of our boys were each award-
ed a $1200.00 scholarship, which will enable them after
leaving us to go to college, for the full four years' course,
a privilege which does not often come to institution
children.

PATRIOTIC SERVICE

Before the end of the war the stars on our Alumni
Service Flag numbered between eighty and ninety. With
nearly all the boys represented by these stars we have

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been in almost constant touch. As long as regulations
permitted, packages containing knit goods, candies, and
comforts of all kinds were sent to both those abroad and
those in camp in this country. But more than anything
that we did for them, we count what they did for us.
Their frequent and lengthy letters were a never failing
source of inspiration to both staff and children; their
cheerfulness and courage under the most adverse condi-
tions made us feel that our burdens were indeed light
compared with theirs.

Many of these boys have been slightly wounded, a few
sleep in foreign soil, but the majority are coming back
to us in the best of health and spirits. Those already
home have lost no time in visiting the institution, even
when they have landed in other ports than that of New
York.

Our pride in the boys who so nobly represented us
would be to them mere empty boasting, if they did not
know that we have been helping here at home. Over
$6,000.00 worth of Liberty Bonds and War Savings
Stamps were purchased by our family during the year.
The children's real share in this amount is shown by the
fact that our school was among the private schools of
Westchester County to be on the Honor Eoll for the pur-
chase of War Savings Stamps, our pupils having reached
a per capita of $10.05.

In all of the Liberty Loan campaigns our Boy Scouts
were most active, in the fourth issue selling over $12,-
000.00 worth of bonds. Our Girl Scout Troop, as a unit
of the Yonkers branch of the Girls' Patriotic Service
League, last spring had a place in one of the great Red
Cross parades, and in the early fall took part in an his-
torical pageant given to arouse enthusiasm for the Red
Cross drive.

Patriotic service also might be called the gardening
and canning done by the children in their vocational

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classes. Last season they surpassed their record of the
year before, putting away no less than 9000 quarts of
vegetables and fruits, canned or dried.

RECREATION

If under the children's recreation we include both their
play and their social activities, the year would seem to
have been remarkably full of pleasure and interest.

Organized sports have again claimed a large share
of the free time of the older boys. They have played
baseball during the summer months among themselves
and with neighboring school and Scout teams. In the
winter our fine gymnasium has given them as usual an
easy excellence in basket ball. At present our first team
is engaged in a series of contests with the different Scout
units of Yonkers and bids fair, as always, to do us credit.

Our older girls have also been enthusiastic over bas-
ketball. A picked girls' team recently played the second
team of the boys, coming out with a tie. Like the boys,
they have taken long walks and have been initiated into
some of the charms of woodcraft and outdoor cooking.
For the stormy holiday or the spare moment there has
always been a piano available or a book or game at hand.

The younger children have had, as in other years, their
daily periods of supervised play, and time besides to be
together or alone, as they might choose, with their own
games and their own toys.

We encourage all the children to spend as much of their
play time as possible out of doors, and this past year they
have responded even more willingly than usual. Never
have individual gardens, .swings, see-saws, marbles, kites,
been more attractive. Coasting, too, was most popular,
when we had such snow as fell in the early months of 1918.
Anxious as was that winter for the grown-ups, for a
healthy, active child it was in many ways ideal.

Last summer a number of our older boys went to our

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farm at Tivoli-on-Hudson, where they did good work and
had plenty of boating and swimming besides. The chance
to go to the farm is always greatly coveted, so attractive
is the place.

For the children here we had a new source of pleasure
— a motor boat, which was loaned them for the summer.
In this, different groups went across the river for all
day picnics, and one party with the Superintendent made
the trip to Tivoli. We had hoped to take some of the
older boys and possibly the older girls camping, but the
necessary curtailment in many places of such privileges
because of the proximity of the great military camps
made this impossible. Perhaps another summer we may
be able to realize for the children this cherished dream.

Scattered throughout the year we have had a number
of different entertainments, prepared by the children
themselves or furnished by outside friends, and have
listened to stirring talks on patriotism and kindred pres-
ent-day topics. The literary society has done the most
serious work in its history, at one of the meetings this
winter attempting the first formal debate. Our weekly
piano classes, conducted by a teacher from the New York
Music School Settlement, have again been a source of
delight to those privileged to attend.

During the year the older boys and girls have met in
several social gatherings, while on Washington's Birth-
day, Hallowe'en, and other special occasions, different
groups of our large family have held their own parties.
Our moving picture machine on many a Saturday evening
has provided both amusement and instruction.

Christmas was, of course, a wonderful time for the
children, and for all of us in fact, so recently had the
cloud of war been lifted from the world. Not a child was
forgotten in Santa Claus' visit, those who had no rel-
atives to remind him of them being put on his list by a
new friend of the home.

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An unusual treat was the Christmas dinner which
about fifty of our older boys and girls enjoyed on board
of one of the great army transports while it was in har-
bor. Their hosts, the officers and sailors, spared no pains
to make the day instructive and delightful to their young
guests, even providing a tree ladened with remarkably
well chosen gifts. During the Christmas recess two
groups of boys and girls had the keen pleasure of going
to the Hippodrome, through the kindness of generous
friends of the institution.

Other interesting experiences of the children during the
year have been mentioned in the report of their patriotic
service. Aside from the pleasure derived by our boys
and girls from their patriotic work, we feel that it has
been a great advantage to them to have associated with so
many people in so many different ways. It has been an
education in national affairs, business methods and social
usages, which will be of inestimable value to them in the
years to come.

CHARACTER FORMING

In the very nature of things this part of our work is
more difficult to report than, for example, the physical
development of the children, which can be judged in
terms of inches and pounds, of color and appetite. Our
conduct chart furnishes some help, it is true, and yet it is
necessarily an uncertain gauge. The happy spirit of the
children, their friendly attitude toward each other and
toward those who care for and teach them, the cheerful
way in which they perform their duties in the class-room
and about the house and in which they accept the little
responsibilities placed upon them, these are perhaps the
real indications of the fine character of our boys and girls
taken together as a family.

In judging the character development of the individual
child, we try to remember that all lasting growth is slow.
It is only when we ,stop to think back that we realize, often

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with surprise, what great improvement has been made;
how the marring trait in one child has gradually disap-
peared, and, in another, the good qualities have become
more firmly established.

The religious training in the home is intensely prac-
tical. In our daily assembly before the school hour, the
few verses of the Bible read, the hymn sung, and the
short prayer offered, are all within the children's under-
standing, and the word of warning or encouragement
added touches always their daily life.

On Sundays, our olders boys and girls have the addi-
tional inspiration of worshipping with others in the
morning service of the neighboring churches of several
denominations, in one of which a group of our boys con-
stitutes the choir. For the benefit of the smaller children
we have in the afternoon a short Sunday school session.

This work of character moulding, however quietly and
slowly it goes on, is, in the last analysis, our most im-
portant task. Especially in this day, what greater work
can any of us do for his country and for the world at
large than to help the children to grow up into men and
women who, in some measure at least, have the vision of
the helpful Christian life?

AFTER-CARE

Our boys in service have received perhaps more of our
attention during the past year than have the other boys
or girls who have passed out of our immediate care. But
it has been the other alumni, in their splendid association,
who have stood back of the home financially in what we
have tried to do for our soldier and sailor boys. This
work has, therefore, been more far-reaching than would
appear at first sight.

As in previous years, we have attempted to aid the
boys and girls needing positions and those capable of
filling better places than they at present hold. In this

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again the Alumni Association has been of the greatest
assistance. The Association has also, in several instan-
ces, paid a small benefit to help tide a member over a dis-
tressful period, caused by illness or other unlooked-for
trouble.

We always welcome to the old home at Thanksgiving
and Christmas our former boys and girls who have no
stronger ties. Every Fourth of July these and a hundred
or more others, some of them now accompanied by their
families, take possession of the place. Already the boys
returning are talking of the glorious reunion there will
be this coming Fourth, when all are back from over-seas.

The old boys and girls not only show a kindly regard
for each other, but, by way of appreciation of what has
been done for them by the home, manifest an active in-
terest in those who have taken their places. Last June,
at our school closing, one of the alumni, now a successful
business man, offered $100.00 in prizes for the year to
come for excellence and for improvement in deportment,
vocational work and scholarship..

Relevant here, perhaps, is a recent interesting hap-
pening in connection with our records. We received a
letter not long since from a man who left the home forty-
two years ago, asking if we could give him any informa-
tion which might put him in touch with his possible living
kin. As our back files had been carefully gone over a few
years ago, we were able to give him a brief account of
the circumstances of his admission to the home, with the
names of his then living relatives. We hope that only
good may come to him and to others in the possible resul-
tant knitting up of old ties.

We might add that quite recently our record system
has been greatly enlarged, so that much more varied
information in regard to the children now with us is being
gathered and will be available to them in the years to
come.

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Though in no sense under our care after they have
been legally adopted, yet we should make some mention
of those for whom during the year we have found new
homes. Nothing in our field of labor gives us greater
pleasure than the placing-out work, but its scope is lim-
ited by the small number of children eligible for adoption.
Requests coming almost daily from childless homes have
to be regretfully refused, because, even in our large
family, very few are without ties which hold legally. It
has been our good fortune, however, this past year, to
see six children go out from us to bring joy to the hearts
of some of those who have longed for a little one whom
they might call their own.

MATERIAL IMPROVEMENTS IN THE HOME
AND PLANS FOR THE FUTURE

Many hoped-for changes in and additions to our plant
have naturally been postponed on account of war condi-
tions. A few improvements, however, seemed imperative
this last year. For the sake of the health and greater
comfort of our increasing number of boys, especially in
the winter months, a sitting-room for them, both warm
and airy, was much needed. This we arrived at by par-
titioning off a sunny corner of their unusually large play-
room. The new room is the pride of the boys and has
been one of the great factors, we believe, in their remark-
able cheerfulness and health.

To help solve the problem of proper food for the chil-
dren at the minimum of expense, we early in the year
installed a brick bake oven.

Some new equipment proved absolutely necessary in
the sewing-room, to meet the demands of our larger
family. This has enabled us to manufacture more of the
children's clothing than heretofore, thus giving us more
durable garments, besides making possible even further
variety.

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Here and there throughout the year little repairs and
improvements have been made about the home by the
boys, under their manual training teacher, but these have
involved no great expense.

We hope that some day we may have our long talked-of
cottages for the girls. We realize that although the con-
gregate institution has for boys many advantages over
the cottage system, the ideal for girls is the smaller home,
where their most natural training for life is more prop-
erly found. This change would be a gain in other ways,
giving the younger boys the girls ' side of the building and
leaving us additional places for older boys, for whom
many organizations find it difficult to provide.

Another plan perhaps more within the bounds of pos-
sibility at present is the utilization for boys' work of our
farm at Tivoli-on-Hudson. We have used the property
hitherto chiefly as a vacation home, although the past few
summers we have made the land produce considerable
food for winter use here. But in the face of the great
and growing need, it would seem that there also we should
have a year-round work. So many desirable features
already has the house and its surroundings that whatever
might now be expended upon them would have immedi-
ate results. A few thousand dollars would convert the
place into an attractive, comfortable home-school for
thirty boys, whom we would otherwise be obliged to
refuse.

CONCLUSION

In closing, we wish to express our thanks to those
whose contributions and gifts during this difficult year
have helped to relieve our anxieties or have added to the
efficiency of our work or to the pleasure of the children.
A word of appreciation is due also to the hospitals and
clinics in Yonkers and New York City where our boys
and girls needing operation or special treatment have
received such careful attention and unfailing kindess.

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Expenditure and Income Account

Year Ending December 31, 1918

EXPENDITURE

Maintenance and Care of Household :

Provisions $22,966.58

House Supplies, etc 2,371.79

School Supplies, Stationery, Books, etc 1,271.00

Recreation, etc 433.67

Clothing and Shoes 6,364.77

Physicians, Medical Supplies, Dentistry 2,122.52

Tivoli Sundry Expenses 629.54 $36,159.87

Outside Boarding Charges 138.30

Salaries and Wages :

Superintendent, Principal. Secretary,

Housekeeper $ 4,134.00

Teachers 4,325.38

Nurses, Supervisors, Seamstresses,

House Wages, etc 17,951.09 26,410.47

Upkeep of House and Grounds, etc.:

Garden and Grounds— Yonkers $ 287.76

Garden and Grounds — Tivoli 223.69

Stable . 1.879.91

Furnishings and Bedding 3,381.41

Repairs to Buildings 5.199.64

Insurance 726.28

Taxes, etc 30.00 11,728.69

Heat, Light and Water 11,781.45

Administration Expenses, etc.

Telephone, Traveling, Postage, Typewriting and

Professional Services, etc. etc 1.897.10

$88,115.88

INCOME

Interest and Rents from Securities and Property $35,282.48

Grants and Contributions from Public Authorities.. 36,687.97

Donations, etc 3,784.88

Contributions — Parents and Guardians 6,489.85

Sales at Institution 267.83 $82,513.01

Deficit for the Year $ 5,602.87

We hare audited the accounts of The Leake & Watts Orphan House in
the City of New York for the year ending December 31, 1918, and hereby
certify that the foregoing is a true statement of the transactions stated.

Patterson-, Tkblh & Dbnnis,

May 8, 1919. Accountants and Auditors.

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Contributions

1918

Andreas, Mrs. Mabel 5.00

Anonymous 5.00

Anonymous 5.00

Applebee, F. J. 50.00

Averbeck, M. J. 5.00

Aycrigg, Miss Kate 5.00

Battle, Geo. G. 2.00

Beach, Mrs. Rex 10.00

Berlin, H. C. 5.00

Best, H. D. 10.00

Best, Dr. & Mrs. W. N. 10.00

Buck, Mrs. Julia F. 5.00

Butler, Mrs. Mary R. 10.00

Cahen, I. J. 5.00
Cammann, H. H. (for

pathescope) 247.50

Candee, Mrs. Lyman 10.00

Chapman, Henry S. 20.00
Through Central Nat. Bank

of Cleveland, O. 10.00

Choate, Mrs. Jos. H. 25.00

Clarke, Roger H. 10.00

Clausen, Mrs. Geo. U. 5.00

Courtney, Miss Bertha F. 1.00.

Davis, Lee Parsons 10.00

Daw, Mrs. Emily L. 5.00

Deeves, Richard 10.00

Dix, Mrs. John A. 25.00

Dodge, Cleveland H. 100.00

Dutton, Edw. P. 10.00

Eickelberg, August 25.00

Emmett, Miss Lydia F. 5.00

Ferguson Bros. 75.00

Francis, Dr. Lewis 5.00

Fridenberg, Robt. 10.00

Frueauff, Frank W. 10.00

Gillies, Edwin J. 5.00

Gould, Edwin 1,000.00

Greeff, Bernard, Jr. 45.00

Haines, Chas. D. 10.00

Hague, A. J. 10.00

Hamersley, L. Gordon 25.00

Harding, Miss Caroline 5.00

Harkness, Edw. W. 150.00

Harrington, Mrs. J. W. 5.00

Hayden, Mrs. Peter 20.00

Hewitt, Miss Eleanor G. 5.00

Hoyt, Miss Gertrude L. 5.00

Hyde, Miss Mabel L. 25.00

Hyde, Mrs. Clarence M. 50.00

Ulmensee, George 2.00

Innis, Mrs. Wm. R. 10.00

Jackson, Mrs. Geo. T. 10.00

Jackson, S. Y. 5.00

Jahn, Mrs. Gustave 5.00

Jenkins, A. W. 10.00

Johnson, Isaac G. & Co. 25.00

Keeling, Mrs. Wheldon 10.00

Lavelle, Rev. M. J. 10.00

Lawrence, J. J. 3.Q0

Lyon, Chas. O. 5.00

McCutcheon, James & Co. 20.00

McKenney, H. P. & Co. 10.00

McLean, Miss Ethel L. 25.00

MacLean, Mrs. Chas. F. 10.00

Maguire, Mrs. J. P. 25.00

Marburg, Mrs. T. H. 3.00

Milliken, John B. 25.00

Morrison, Wm. A. 10.00

Muller, Frederick 10.00

Nichols, Wm. H. 50.00

Noble, Raymond G. 5.00
Northrop, Miss Catherine R. 10.00

Noyes, Chas. F. 15.00

Openhym, Mrs. Wm. 3.00

Opdyke, Mrs. Emerson 5.00

Page, W. H. 10.00

Peck, Miss Lilian 5.00

Pell, Rev. Alfred Duane 10.00

Penfold, Edmund 25.00

Perkins, Mrs. Geo. W. 25.00

Peters, Mrs. Theo. L. 25.00

Porter, Mrs. Frank B. 10.00

Post, Abram S. 10.00

Post, James H. 250.00

Prizer, Edw. 10.00

Reid, Wallace 10.00

Rein, John 1.00

Reisinger, Mrs. H. 10.00

Rhodes, W. W. 2.00

Riker, Wm. J. 10.00

Robbins, Miss Harriet L. 5.00
Rockefeller, Mrs. John

D., Jr. 25.00

Rockwood, Miss Katharine C. 5.00

Root, Mrs. Paul Ward 10.00

Ross, P. H. W. 5.00

Rowe, Garvin 5.00

Sachs, Dr. Barney 10.00

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CONTRIBUTIONS (Continued)

1918

Sanders, Miss Josie 2.00

Sawyer, Mrs. Homer E. 3.00

Schwartz, Jos. 3.00

Scott, Miss M. Evelyn 150.00

Scott, Robt. 25.00

Scoville, Mrs. E. H. 10.00

Seeman Bros. 25.00

Seymour, H. T. 5.00

Sexton, Geo. W. 10.00

Sheldon, Mrs. Edwin B. 5.00

Sloane, Henry T. 20.00

Smith .Pierre J. 10.00
Smith, Miss Josephine C. 10.00

Steele, Charles 50.00

Steinmetz, Harry 15.00

Strauss, Chas. 25.00

Sturges, W. W. 20.00

Terry, Mrs. John T. 50.00

Terry, Wyllys 5.00

Tiemann, Mrs. Ella A. 10.00

Tifft Bros. 10.00
Tobey, Miss Elizabeth W. 5.00

Tobey, O. H. 15.00

Todd, W. Parsons 20.00

Towne, J. H. 15.00

Tyrrell, Dr. Chas. A. 10.00

Van Winkle, Edgar B. 2.00

Wagnalls, Miss Mabel 5.00

Wanamaker, John 5.00

Wandling, James L. 10.00

Ward, Chas. P. & Son 10.00

Ward, Arteinus 25.00

Ward, Harry E. 25.00

Warren, Mrs. J. Kearney 10.00

Watson, Arthur W. 20.00

Watts, Mrs. Martin S. 1.00

Webster, J. S. 20.00

Weeks, Dr. John E. 10.00

Westervelt, Wm. Y. 10.00
Whitehouse, Mrs. J. Henry 5.00

Wiesendanger, Ulrieh 5.00

Willets, Mrs. Amelia 10.00

Williams, Frank B. 10.00

Winkaus, A. C. 5.00

Wolff, Mrs. Jacob 10.00

Wollman, Henry 1.00

Yuille, T. B. 10.00

Zorn, Mrs. J. T. 5.00

Donation for Candy 5.00

Christmas Fund :

Agnew, Austin A. 10.00

Harding, Miss Caroline 1.00
Sullivan, Mrs. Susan E. 15.00

Gould, Edwin 50.00

Interest credited by Trust

Co. on balances, 52.38

FOR OUR BOYS IN MILITARY SERVICE

Leake and Watts Association $58.00
James Henry 20.00
Mrs. Andrew Peck and Mrs. R. B. Bowdish 5 Hand-knit Sweaters

5 " " Helmets

OTHER GIFTS

Arnold, Mrs. Hicks
Davis & Voetsch
Howland, Mrs. Geo. F.
Orne, Mrs. A. M.
Pitt, Mrs. F.
Wickershap, G. W.
Y. M. C. A., 54th St.

Clothing
Box of Toys
Clothing
Scrapbook
Books

Box of Toys

48 lbs. Buckwheat Flotn

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Board of Trustees
i 9 i 8

John F. Hylan Mayor of the City of New York

William T. Manning, D.D Eector of Trinity Church

Richard Delafield 1 w c m . ™ ,

tj rj ^ Wardens of Trinity Church

Hermann H. Cammann ) J

David James Burrell, D.D.

Senior Minister of the Collegiate Dutch Church

Howard Duffield, D.D.

Minister First Presbyterian Church

Officers of Board

Howard Duffield, D.D. President

John A. Dix Treasurer*

James Henry Treasurer Pro Tern

William A. Kirk Clerk

Leake and Watts Alumni Association

John E. Gait President

Arthur Wilson First Vice-President

Edward Jayne Second Vice-President

George J. Hunt Recording Secretary

William Tresselt Corresponding Secretary

William Bal Treasurer

Trustees of Association

William Bal
Henry Brownlee
George J. Hunt

* Absent on military service.

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Officers and Teachers
i 9 i 8 — i 9 i 9

Albert S. McClain Superintendent

J. B. Kouwenhoven. M.D. Attending Physician
S. R. Rosenbaum, D.D.S. Attending Dentist

Miss Mary A. Berns Principal
Miss Hilma P. Holmes Secretary
Mrs. Carrie B. Watts Clerk

Teachers

Miss Mabel Ackroyd Miss Madeline J. Relyea

Miss Mabel F. Lane Miss Olive C. Kittell

Miss N. Evelyn Scholl Miss Irma C. Hawkins

Miss Elizabeth Abrams Kindergarten & Gymnastics

Miss Lena R. Cates Household Arts

Miss Mabel J. Timmins Piano Classes

A. J. Hall Manual Training

S. L. Staples Printing

P. Woods (Acting) Horticulture

Heads of House Departments

Mrs. Ermina Scofield Managing Housekeeper

Miss Helen B. Ridgely, R.N. Head Nurse

Miss Luella J. Cooley Head of Sewing Room

J. P. Porter Steward

Children's Supervisors

S. L. Staples ^

Miss Catherine Gracey > Boys
Miss Mabel S. Wright J

Miss Florence M. Beaven Girls
Miss Emma J. Taylor Reception Cottage

Mrs. Lily H. Miller Riverview Cottage

Miss Cora Dobson Special Cottage

Manager, Tivoli Farm
E. Drury

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Statistics of Children

Boys Girls Total

Number in Home,

January 1, 1918

155

70

225

Number admitted

during the year

58

51

109

213

121

334

Number discharged

during the year

30

50

80

Number in Home

December 31, 1918. .

. . 183

71

254

Urgent Needs

A larger Dining Boom at Riverview
Cottage.

Necessary Equipment to make "Rose
Hill" at Tivoli-on-Hudson a permanent
farm-home-school for 30 boys.

Additional Endowment to enable us to
care for a larger number of children.

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Form of Bequest and Devise

Personal Estate

I give and bequeath to ' ' The Trustees of the Leake and
Watts Orphan House in the City of New York" the sum
of Dollars

Real Estate

I give and devise to "The Trustees of the Leake and
Watts Orphan House in the City of New York" my real
property at
known as

Information on this subject will be gladly furnished by
William A. Kirk, Clerk of the Board of Trustees, and
Counsel to the Corporation, 32 Liberty Street, New
York City. Tel. John 107.

Checks should be drawn payable to James Henky,
Treasurer pro tern., 262 Greene Street, New York City.

ERLB W. WHITFIELD
NEW YORK